Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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